Description
Madeira wine is produced from a small number of varietal grapes grown on terraces called poios on the rocky island of Madeira, 300 miles north of the Canary Islands. Due to the warm climate, its fruit is picked earlier with higher acidity than other wines. Initially shipped by the Portuguese around the Cape of Good Hope, this wine was exposed to all the wrong winemaking variables including equatorial heat, constant rocking motion, and oxidization. Factors that would ruin nearly any wine gave Madeira its signature style, and a historic Napoleonic naval blockade created the need to fortify this wine with brandy to prevent spoilage during extended periods at sea.
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